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*gazes into the distance* I simultaneously believe that humans have been like this for millennia and that we stand at a uniquely stupid moment in history

you freaks can't even do a genocide without selfies. your troops are sniping little girls in the skull and then doing tiktoks wearing their clothing. you guys got mental pathologies they just invented on tiktok last year

The cops illegally parking their cars under this underpass for hours didn't bother to even respond to this until they were hit with an actual No Parking sign. At which point they tried to fire tear gas up at viewers and gassed themselves.

seriously, what what a piece of shit thing to do. imagine this idea forming in your brain & just following through. no impulse control. juvenile brain function. years of training telling you all your peers are totally down w/ what you're about to do. what a bad organization this guy's a part of.

every computer is powered by the imprisoned soul of a peasant who died of tuberculosis in the 1800s. it is right and just that we should free them

Again, this isn't Los Angeles. This is happening right now outside an ICE building in SF:

we really missed out when we didn't get a project with martindale & pat carroll as a mother daughter duo before carroll died

Why does this seem so familiar? Oh yeah: www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/...

ECHO MAKER - “Capital does not believe it can fail, which is why it must fail.” VOLITION - So young. So *unbearably* young… HALF LIGHT - Why do you see the two of them with their backs against a bullet-pocked wall, all of a sudden?

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

rewatching justified and margo martindale sounds like every old lady northeastern texas relative i've got to a degree that almost invokes homesickness

The Israeli army boarded the Freedom Flotilla and arrested Greta Thunberg and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla's crew

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

It's worthwhile to pause for a moment and think about what a military operation to establish control over a major American city - let's say Los Angeles - would actually look like. The city of LA, which excludes most of the metro area, has nearly 4 million inhabitants. LA county has 10 million.

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Update from the Madleen Freedom Flotilla

no talk. he angy

Easily over 1,000 people outside the federal detention center in LA, with another 2,000+ at City Hall.

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

"Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few!" Shelley, from a poem written after the Peterloo Massacre

It's very funny watching the Turner Diaries fantasies of men with hundred grand pickups crumble against the reality of elote cart owners and yoga moms being willing to put their bodies between their targets and their toy soldiers, and make the latter run.

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

if you bought a Switch 2 and you're wondering what else to put on it to pad things out and thinking about checking out "Hogwarts Legacy" Don't. Buy Yakuza 0. Even if you got the console for a child and it's primarily going to be used by that child. The children need to learn.

“People came over to help and got me on the curb. A medic was called, who cut off my clothes. In my leg was what felt like a five centimeter hole with muscle hanging out of it and blood all down my leg. The medic put a tourniquet on it, and a journalist I was with took me to ER.”

The hateful flotilla

Somehow the most alarming fact about this man is that his politics have remained the same *since middle school*

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

Now that I've made peaceful revolution impossible it's time to sit back and enjoy my wealth and power with no adverse consequences

"this is just like star wars. this is just like Harry potter. actually this is like battlestar galactica" actually maybe the things that are happening are real? and are occurring in reality, in the real world? and constantly viewing them through the lens of fantasy isn't helping?

یا القادر God protect them and empower them, strengthen their hearts, put the wind at their backs, confuse and scatter the oppressors in their path, and nourish the believers these courageous souls are attempting to feed 🤲 اللهم صل علی محمد و آل محمد

you idiot, you fucker, you stupid bitch, you loser, you unfuckable dork, you piece of shit, can I borrow twenty dollars?

In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

From NYC to LA, we are in solidarity with our immigrant brothers and sisters. People deserve to be safe in their homes, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods. We will not allow this administration—or anyone—to strip away the dignity and humanity that every person deserves.

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“Firing back”

Less than 45 minutes after President Donald Trump thanked the National Guard "for a job well done!" Mayor Karen Bass clarified on social media "the National Guard has not been deployed in the City of Los Angeles."